Test Environment Manager - Vodafone Shared Services Romania - AVR0000CA

_VOIS (Vodafone Intelligent Solutions) is a strategic arm of Vodafone Group Plc, creating value and enhancing quality and efficiency across 28 countries, and operating from 6 locations: Albania, Egypt, Hungary, India, Romania, and the UK.

Over 26,000 highly skilled individuals are dedicated to being Vodafone Group’s partner of choice for talent, technology, and transformation. We deliver the best services across IT, Care, Business Intelligence Services, HR, Finance, Supply Chain, HR Operations, and many more. Established in 2006, _VOIS has evolved into a global, multi-functional organisation, a Centre of Excellence for Intelligent Solutions focused on adding value and delivering business outcomes for Vodafone.

_VOIS is proud to be an Equal Employment Opportunity Employer. We celebrate differences and we welcome and value diverse people and insights. We believe that being authentically human and inclusive powers our employees’ growth and enables them to create positive impact for themselves and society. We do not discriminate based upon age, colour, gender (including pregnancy, childbirth, or related medical conditions), gender identity, gender expression, and national origin, race, religion, sexual orientation, status as an individual with a disability, or other applicable legally protected characteristics.

REQUIRED SKILLS:
Requirements:
Core competencies, knowledge and experience:
* Intellectual capacity to assess and understand complex and difficult situations;
* Ability to understand the bigger picture when working on a large project;
* Ability to be flexible and manage change;
* Ability to build big picture and consider wider implications of decisions;
* Demonstrate decision making ability using available data and your intuition;
* Excellent written and verbal communication skills. A good listener who can quickly extract the critical information from a mass of detail;
* Influencing skills. Able to make things happen when not in a position of direct control;
* Capability to communicate with different stakeholders from different teams across the organisation;
* Able to delegate to others, including teams and individuals located remotely;
* Ability to assess risk and recommend appropriate actions;
* Understanding of Business Analysis and Technical Analysis roles.

Other desirable skillset comprises knowledge in the following areas:
* Infrastructure;
* PL-SQL / DBA / Replication
* ORACLE OBIEE, Golden Gate, Web Center, Exadata, BRM;
* IT Security;
* CLOUD / SaaS, PaaS , IaaS.

Must have technical / professional qualifications:
* ISTQB Test Practitioner certificate or equivalent or demonstrate experience and achievements to this standard;
* Experience in complex projects in the Telco;
* Experience in Linux/UNIX systems;
* Experience in Virtualisation, SaaS, PaaS, IaaS and Cloud;
* Experience in DBA/Replication.

Role purpose:
Manage test environments across M2M T&QA team projects.

Key accountabilities and decision ownership:
* Provide leadership for environment maintenance;
* Manage an environment maintenance team’s daily activities;
* Manage installation and operationalization of software releases across test environment;
* Keep an updated record of which software releases are installed in each test environment;
* Management of test data and environment configurations across test environments ;
* Help testing teams identifying environment characteristics that could drive to erroneous behaviours while performing test activities;
* Identify and manage risks, communicating them, their implications and mitigation actions to Quality Assurance Test Manager;
* Perform environment adjustments to drive Test Automation, Performance Testing and Security Testing as well as Network Elements Testing.

What we offer:
* Private medical and dental care insurance;
* Life insurance;
* Dedicated employee phone subscription;
* Special discounts for gyms and retailers;
* Project specific training;
* A youthful and multicultural working environment with dedicated professionals and great development opportunities.

To apply for this position, please use the following URL:
https://ars2.equest.com/?response_id=bef35911651f238324a0180559a404c1